If conditions are obvious the night before that the weather will not allow for school the next day, then school officials will make the cancellation call that night by 9 p.m. Often this is not the case, so district transportation staff begin checking the roads at 3:30 a.m. the next morning. School officials also make contact with local road crews, as well as the police department, to pinpoint local trouble areas.

Lebanon Middle School is one of 30 finalists for Windstream’s SchoolsWIN Classroom Connections program, and Windstream is encouraging the public to vote for its favorite finalists to determine which schools will receive one of at least six $25,000 awards.
Since August, the SchoolsWIN program has been encouraging public, private and charter schools within Windstream’s residential service areas to participate in a community improvement project and submit videos of their projects for a chance to receive $25,000 for technology.

A school's audit report doesn't usually make big headlines unless there are big problems.

And, while there were no big problems with the Marion County Public Schools' 2010-11 audit report, the auditors did make several recommendations, all of them concerning the superintendent's travel expenditures and reimbursements.

“At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” in 1918, the Armistice was signed to end The Great War. In declaring Nov. 11, 1919, as the first American Armistice Day, President Woodrow Wilson said: